Define Analytics Goals in BigQuery - google-analytics

I am trying to get Analytics goal conversions and goal names with BigQuery, but it seems this must by defined by myself. How can I define this in BigQuery? Could someone provide me with a query example or guide?
Thanks a lot!!

The goals configured inside of Google Analytics are not stored in BigQuery and will need to be computed from scratch.
You will need to make a query based on the fact that the goal is generate it is, for example, by event or thank you page, so you need to recreate the calculation of the same according to how you have configured them in Google Analytics Admin section.

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where to find google analytics dimensions values

I'm trying to implement my own google analytics reporting UI where users pick metrics and dimensions and then pick the filters according to what the user have already chosen and my question is there any way to get all the dimensions values? for example the dimension "country" can take the value of all the countries(USA,Fance,etc...). I've did some research on google but found nothing. any help is appreciated!
I would suggest using something like Analytics Edge extension for Excel to do exactly what you're trying to do.
If that doesn't completely solve what you're doing, the extension does pull all the pullable fields from GA. It also gives you an insight into what kind of request it sends to G to pull the data. Very useful for debugging, but also for learning the reporting API.
Alternatively, there's documentation on the API here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4
Make sure you know whether you're using GA4 or GA UA. They have different APIs.

Get Real time Analytics Data

I want to get analytics data of each user of my website. I know that google analytics provide data user wise but I am not able to export that data using API. I want real time user wise data with export feature to save it in my database. I have gone through many platform like mouseflow but they do not provide data user wise. Is anyone have idea how can I implement this?
Thanks!
Here an example of how to get data from Google Real Time API (with Google Apps Script):
https://www.appsscript.it/tutorial/utilizzare-le-real-time-reporting-api-di-google-analytics-con-apps-script/

Merging data collected using 2 Tracking IDs of Google Analytics

Is there any way to merge data collected using 2 different Tracking IDs of Google Analytics?
Using the Google Analytics API you can extract the data you wish from both properties into your own system. Say a database I recommend adding the property id to the tables storing the data so that you will be able to differentiate between the data.
There is nothing out of the box that will do this for you with the exception of big Query. Users with a Google analytics 360 account can extract there data to big query. However I have not tried this I am not sure even that will allow you to analyze data over multiple views.
While #DalmTo is correct that there's no way to do what you ask for regular Google Analytics accounts, it's probably worth mentioning that you can do this if you're a Google Analytics 360 customer.
The feature is called Roll-up Reporting, and this article explains how it works:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6096167
I found this add-on for Google Sheets that can help you with that, it combines the metrics from several Google Analytics properties into one Google Sheet, I hope this helps!
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Visit flow in Google Analytics

We're trying to study the behaviour of users before a transaction by analyzing the visit flow, via Google Analytics API.
We've found two limitations when ordering pages:
API has no an analogous to hits.hitNumber in BigQuery.
We're trying to order by time dimensions. The minimum level is ga:minutes, so when there are two or more pages visited at the same minute, we can't figure out which of them comes first.
Any idea about how to deal with it? Thanks in advance.
There is nothing you can do if you wish to use your current dataset.
However, what you can do, in order to carry out these types of analysis in the future, is to create custom dimensions for sessionId and hitTimeStamp. These are simple to deploy through Google Tag Manager.
A great article how to do this can be found here by Simo Ahava.
That way can you can partition by sessionId and then order by hitTimeStamp to get your ordered page flow.

Is there a good alternative to Google Analytics that does not sample?

I want to pay my writers based on unique page views. Right now I am getting my data from Google Analytics. The frustrating thing is that the numbers given by Google Analytics are from sampling.
So is there a Analytics Service to get unique page views that does not sample its data?
Or as anyone try doing something similar to what I am trying to accomplish, what would you recommend I do?
I use Unsampler
Extract unsampled data from a Google Analytics Standard profile. Avoid sampling and get at your real data.
Try to use PIWIK - it is server side analytics system, but you will must save all data on your server - you need separate mysql data base.

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